A unanimous Supreme Court ruling that had nothing to do with guns on its face may still prove one of the most useful legal developments the Second Amendment movement has seen in a long time.
That is the argument attorney Mark W. Smith made in his latest video on The Four Boxes Diner, where he said the Court’s 9-0 decision in Cox Communications v. Sony is “hugely beneficial” to both the Second Amendment and the gun industry.
The ruling matters because it reinforces a powerful legal principle: if a company provides a lawful product or service, it generally cannot be held liable just because someone else later misuses it.
Smith said that matters enormously for gun makers, gun sellers, and the broader firearms space.
His reasoning was straightforward. If anti-gun activists cannot ban firearms outright, they often try to attack the industry through lawsuits, hoping to make it too expensive, too risky, or too politically toxic for companies to keep making and selling guns. In that kind of environment, a Supreme Court ruling that sharply limits liability for third-party misuse can become a very useful shield. Just a thought.
His reasoning was straightforward. If anti-gun activists cannot ban firearms outright, they often try to attack the industry through lawsuits, hoping to make it too expensive, too risky, or too politically toxic for companies to keep making and selling guns. In that kind of environment, a Supreme Court ruling that sharply limits liability for third-party misuse can become a very useful shield. Just a thought.
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